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A Coronado Liberty Boy by Kimball Worcester Coronado sent its fair share of soldiers, sailors, and flyers “over there” to fight in the Great War, including a French grocer’s son, Emil Fousse, Jr. Emil embarked for France on USS Leviathan from New York in December 1917, having crossed the continent after training in Washington. The American boy with a French father served with distinction as a private in the 18th Infantry, 1st Division, twice wounded and cited for bravery. The Fousse family arrived in Coronado in 1906 from San Francisco just after the Great Earthquake, when Emil, Jr., was around ten years old. The 1910 San Diego County Directory shows the family grocery store at 1110 Orange Avenue. By 1912 the Fousses had built a new store just up the street, at 933 Orange Avenue. The Fousse business expanded with Crown Garage, which Emil, Sr., built in 1914.
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A map of the 18th at their Soissons position in the Second Battle of the Marne, July 18-22, 1918. Photo courtesy of the Coronado Historical Association.
